How to let my HTML input be used by my JavaScript function?

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So I have set up many objects with my JavaScript, a HTML dropdown list so you can select which pokemon

As you can see I have tried to access the ‘bulbasaur’ object by using document.getElementById on a list which has a dropdown value of ‘bulbasaur’. When I do console.log(mon) it prints ‘bulbasaur’ so I’m guessing I just can’t access the object this way. Is there a workaround? Thanks

const base =10;
class Pokemon {
  constructor(name, shinyrate) {
    this.name = name;
    this.shinyrate = shinyrate;
  }
}
const bulbasaur = new Pokemon('Bulbasaur', base);

function shundoWild() {
  let mon = document.getElementById("list").value;
  let nowb = mon.shinyrate * ivCombinations(ivFloor.wild);
  let wb = mon.shinyrate * ivCombinations(ivFloor.weatherBoost);
  document.getElementById("print").innerHTML = ("The chance to get a SHUNDO " + mon.name + " wild catch is ~1/" + wb + " when weather boosted, or ~1/" + nowb + " when not weather boosted.")
}
<select id="list" onchange="shundoWild();">
  <option value="bulbasaur">Bulbasaur</option>
  <option value="ekans">Ekans</option>
</select>

7 thoughts on “How to let my HTML input be used by my JavaScript function?”

  1. All You need is to add eval at line 11 of js snippet.
    And you can read about eval from this link https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/eval

    const base =10;
class Pokemon {
  constructor(name, shinyrate) {
    this.name = name;
    this.shinyrate = shinyrate;
  }
}
const bulbasaur = new Pokemon('Bulbasaur', base);

function shundoWild() {
  let mon = eval(document.getElementById("list").value);
  let nowb = mon.shinyrate * ivCombinations(ivFloor.wild);
  let wb = mon.shinyrate * ivCombinations(ivFloor.weatherBoost);
  document.getElementById("print").innerHTML = ("The chance to get a SHUNDO " + mon.name + " wild catch is ~1/" + wb + " when weather boosted, or ~1/" + nowb + " when not weather boosted.")
}
    <select id="list" onchange="shundoWild();">
  <option value="bulbasaur">Bulbasaur</option>
  <option value="ekans">Ekans</option>
</select>
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